The early Christian emperors were not remarkable for their lenience in the face of sexual "crime". For instance, pimps panders, and procurers had molten lead poured down their throats. In the case of forcible seduction both the man and the woman, if she consented, were put to death. In the reign of Valentinian I (fourth century), sodomites were burnt alive. And in 390 Theodosius I proclaimed - "All persons who have the shameful custom of condemning a man's body, acting the part of a woman's, to the sufferance of an alien sex, for they appear not to be different from women, shall expiate a crime of this kind in avenging flames in the sight of the people." The doctrine of Christian forgiveness was quite alien to the early Christian legislators.